Amateur travelogue that documents the Brown's grand tour of Europe in 1937 shortly before the Second World War, where they witness the beginnings of Nazism. The footage records travel in Germany, Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. There are visits to Munich, the Austrian Tyrol region, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz before moving on to Budapest and the Hungarian plains. The film features many images of traditional costume and culture, primarily in scenes filmed on the Hungarian Plains....

Amateur travelogue that documents the Brown's grand tour of Europe in 1937 shortly before the Second World War, where they witness the beginnings of Nazism. The footage records travel in Germany, Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. There are visits to Munich, the Austrian Tyrol region, Vienna, Salzburg and Linz before moving on to Budapest and the Hungarian plains. The film features many images of traditional costume and culture, primarily in scenes filmed on the Hungarian Plains. Footage of Prague focuses on the architecture and monuments of the city. Intertitles feature throughout the film. The film is shot in Dufaycolor. Titles: Movie No.22 A Tour of Central Europe. August-1937 Credits: Photography & Titles by T.H. Brown People carrying bags walk on a railway station platform, crates piled in the foreground, and a stationary train at the platform. A steam ship leaves harbour. Brief shot from sailing ship of sea wash. Shot of sign for "Kaai-Ostende-Quai." Bicycles are unloaded from a ship by crane. The journey from London to Ostende and on to Brussels and Köln is signposted. Title: South Germany. After 20 hours in the train we arrive in Munich. Title: News Kate Brown stops at a colourful newspaper and magazine stand on a Munich street. There is a close-up of the front covers. The imperial eagle insignia of the National Socialist Party (Nazi) appears on the cover of a magazine called JB. Titles: 'Der Stürmer' The Anti-Semitic Newspaper. A street display case shows anti-Semitic propaganda from the pages of the tabloid newspaper Der Stürmer. The newspaper’s motto 'Die Juden sind unser Ungluck!' ('The Jews are our misfortune!') is seen at the bottom of the display case. There is a close-up of the pages, which feature anti-Semitic caricatures. Titles: The out of date news carrier. A young girl stands in the street with pigeons on her arms. A man in a bow tie and black suit in the background stares towards the camera. Title: Munich. Karl’s Thor - Charles Gate. There is a shot of the arched Karlstor city gate as a tram passes along the busy street. Two soldiers with Nazi swastika armbands walk by. Titles: Our transport to the Tyrol. A bus waits to transport people to the Austrian Tyrol region. Kate Brown walks towards the camera and stands next to a small swastika triangular flag on the front of the bus. She tweaks it and looks towards the camera. Titles: Germany. Ettal Church and Monastery. There is an exterior view of Ettal Abbey, a Benedictine monastery. A close up of the Baroque style dome follows and the camera pans across the abbey. A monk speaks to a family of three outside the abbey. Titles: Germany. Oberammergau. Two men walk past a building with a painted mural decorating a wall in the German town of Oberammergau. One man wears a Tyrolean style hat with feather. The next shot shows the full mural with religious saint and ship, followed by the exterior of the café 'Weisses Rossl' with a horn shaped mountain in the background. A young woman gets onto a bicycle and cycles away down the street. There is a shot of traditional Bavarian buildings with window boxes along the street of Oberammergau. A man in traditional Bavarian national costume of short leather breeches (lederhosen), jacket, and felt hat with feather walks across the street. Titles: Germany. Garmisch Partenkirchen, the venue of the Winter Games ’35. There is a brief shot of the peaks of the mountains shrouded in mist in the resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. A signpost points to the sport and ski stadiums. A distant shot of the ski jumps surrounded by greenery follows. Kate Brown stands in the town square. A road sign shows car and motorcycle symbols. A motoring accident has happened and vehicles are blocking a mountain pass. A tall man in long leather coat, smoking a cigarette, walks away from the scene. He has a bloody wound on the side of his head. A policeman arrives. Shot of a damaged motorbike and sidecar with wheels missing. There is another shot of the broken sidecar wheel, followed by one of the car involved in the accident. A group of people pull the car away from the centre of the road. Titles: Austria. Kitzbühel, where Ex King Edward VIII stayed. A road sign points to the Grand Hotel and a shot of the black and white half-timbered hotel in Kitzbühel follows. Title: On the way to Salzburg (Austria) we pass through a strip of German territory. Title: Germany. Berchtesgaden, the Salt Mine is an attraction. A group of young men and women wait in the road. They are dressed in old fashioned miners’ clothing provided for visitors of white baggy trousers, black berets and black leather apron worn back to front. A sign reads 'To the mountain entrance' and people queue to enter the salt mines. Next, a group of visitors to the mine get off a small monorail ride. A woman has her picture taken. Visitors walk back to their tour bus. Title: Austria. Salzburg, renowned for its Musical Festival and its Castle View. A tour guide in traditional Austrian costume of short trousers, long socks and flowery tie helps people from the bus. Kate Brown stands at a railing looking at the view, probably filmed in the Hohensalzburg Castle as the fortress walls can be seen in the background. People stand in a high watchtower with the red and white Austrian flag flying from a pole. There is a view down to two men looking at the view over Salzburg from the castle tower. One man is dressed in monk’s tunic. Next there is an aerial viewpoint from the castle over the city of Salzburg and its winding river. A laughing tour guide poses in traditional Austrian costume. Title: Austria. On the way to Linz we stop at Gmunden. There is a shot of the Schubert monument in the park at Franz-Josephs-Platz and views of Lake Traunsee with swans by the shore. Women wash clothes in the lake. Kate Brown talks to a distinguished old lady wearing a fox fur stole standing by the 'Elite' tour bus. Title: Linz on the Danube. A shot of a sculpture on a white column in Linz follows. There are close-ups of two bronze circular discs at its base. One disc is inscribed with the dates 1914 / 1918 and the second features a two-figure relief. The monument commemorates the First World War. The next sequences show various women market and street traders, mostly wearing headscarves. One seller weighs goods on hand held scales. A woman buys flowers from a stall. There is a shot of a display of patterned silk headscarves, with a glimpse of Kate Brown on the right. Title: From Linz to Vienna we sail along the famous Blue Danube. There are shots of a town with a prominent church steeple seen from the boat, followed by a close-up of some people on the boat that include a young woman in colourful headscarf. Title: Austria. Dürnstein Castle, the scene of the imprisonment of Richard the Lionheart Travelling shot from moving boat of the ruins of Dürnstein Castle on the high cliffs by the River Danube. Title: Vienna. Schönbrunn Castle. Home of Emperor Franz Joseph. People are silhouetted as they walk through a doorway that frames the distant Gloriette building at the top of the hill behind Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna. There are views from the Gloriette of the Palace and baroque garden design. A man and woman walk through the Schönbrunn Gardens with the Palace shown in the background. A shot of a tree-lined walk in the gardens follows. There are shots of tree-lined avenues in the east and west of the gardens known as the Great Parterre, which include views of the Round Pool with a fountain at its centre. The fountain statues are of a nymph and water bird. Kate Brown is walking down a tree-lined avenue. Title: Vienna. The Chancellory where DOLFUSS was assassinated in 1934. Exterior shot from a mid-distance of the Federal Chancellery building in the Ballhausplatz, Vienna. Title: Höldrichsmühle, beloved by Franz Schubert The tour bus stands outside the Höldrichsmühle Mill in the Hinterbrühl valley near Vienna, now a hotel. Schubert is said to have composed some of his music there. Kate Brown appears in the foreground, a circular red stone walled area framed behind her. Title: The Danube. On the way to Budapest. Travelling shot from boat trip down the River Danube. People line the riverbank and wave. One ship flies the Hungarian national flag. There is a close-up of the flag. Overhead view of lake follows. Title: Hungary. Budapest. Trams and cars travel down a wide cobble-stoned, tree-lined street in Budapest. The Széchenyi L·nchÌd, or Chain Bridge, that spans the River Danube between Buda and Pest, is seen through an archway at the right of picture. Next, the Chain Bridge spans the Danube in the mid distance as a steam cruise ship manoeuvres in the foreground. Title: Budapest. The first 'Tube' on the Continent. Kate Brown walks out of the entrance of a Budapest Metro station. Title: Budapest. Millenium Memorial. General view of Heroes Square and the Millennium Monument, with large central cenotaph supporting a bronze statue of Archangel Gabriel and two matched colonnades standing on either side. Title: The Unknown Warrior. Kate Brown stands and looks at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Hero’s Square, which holds a large wreath. The Millennium Monument is seen in the background. Title: Saint Stephen, first King of Hungary. There is a brief shot looking up at a statue of Saint Stephen framed in a tower. Title: Saint Gellert’s People swim, dive and catch the artificial waves in the open-air swimming pool at the Gellért Thermal Baths, which has colourful mosaic walls and sun terraces. Tom Brown, wearing an all-in-one black swimsuit, smiles, waves to camera and splashes in the waves. Title: Hungary. A Trip to the Bugac Puszta (Hungarian Plain.) Two women step into a black taxi. There is a sign that reads 'Kecskemet' on the wall of a house. A woman dressed in black walks down a street where another sign reads 'Behajtani Tilos' ('No Entry') in red circle. The next shot is of Kate Brown sitting at a table on a veranda with a group of people. She then steps off a train decorated with a banner in Hungarian flag colours. There is a shot of three 'csikos', or Hungarian horse herders, in traditional black waistcoat and white dress. Two women are helped into a horse-driven wooden cart. A man in traditional dress riding a horse down a village road lifts his hat as he passes. The next sequences show herds of horses and cattle on the plains. Men use a primitive wooden water pump on  a plain in the middle of a grazing cattle herd. Two men in traditional costume demonstrate techniques with whips. A male tourist attempts to emulate the Hungarian tradition with a whip. Kate Brown wields a whip unsuccessfully, an Hungarian instructor in the background. Title: Chicken a la pole! Chicken is cooked on a large-scale outdoor barbecue whilst a group of tourists watch. Title: The Czardas Men and women demonstrate the czardas (or czardas) national dance of Hungary, with both slow and fast sections of the dance. The women wear red polka dot dresses. A military guard and man in Hungarian costume share a joke. A shot of the guard follows, as he smokes a cigarette beneath a tree. A steam train stands at a station. Title: Czechoslavakia. Praha-Prag-Prague. A uniformed official with white gloves and steel helmet stands by the train. A woman street trader is trying to sell material or teatowels on a Prague street. Title: The Castle and St Vitus Cathedral. A group of people get out of a long tour bus, which is parked outside the main entrance to Prague Castle. A stern military guard stands on duty at Prague Castle. Kate Brown looks up at a large column. There are shots of the main tower with spires and clock of St Vitus Cathedral in Prague. A small statue of St George made by Joze Piecnik stands in a cobble stone square, south of the cathedral. Title: Prague. Alchemist Street. There is a brief shot up the cobblestone Golden Lane at the Prague Castle with its colourful small wooden houses. Title: 2pm Close-up of the Prague Astronomical Clock in the Old Town Square with dial and sculpted figures. Title: Prague. Czechoslakia. Tyn Church, built on the site of the old town Wall (TYN). A brief exterior shot of the Church of Our Lady Before Tyn located on one side of the Old Town Square. Title: Prague. One of the many Synagogues. Kate Brown walks towards the rear of a synagogue. Title: Prague. Hebrew Crucifix. General view of the Crucifix and Calvary with golden Hebrew text on the crucifix, located on Charles Bridge. A close-up of the Jesus figure on the crucifix is followed by one of the base of the sculpture. There is a travelling shot from a train as it leaves a station, followed by the silhouettes of people on a boat at sunset. A wooden train with 'Kings Cross and Aberdeen' sign stands at a platform. A train pulls into a station as two men wait at the end of the platform. There is a final shot of crates branded "Dales" and "LNER Ruttland Stores Grimsby" holding empty bottles. End credits: Dufaycolor 16mm Cine Film By T.H. Brown.